Originally Posted by
livemusic
I find coppernose bream pretty difficult to fillet but I'd rather eat fillets than whole fish. If I fillet a number of them, wondering if anyone would want the rest of the carcass. Could give them a few fillets as sweetener, lol. I don't want to be 'wasteful.'
I know a fellow who does this to crappie he catches. (Keeps and eats the carcass in addition to the fillet.)
If you fillet bream, is there any particular model of knife you find that works well? I use an electric knife. I just bought a Black n Decker (EK500W) 9" and it works well on bass but bass are thicker.
These coppernose I am catching are larger bluegill than I normally catch around here. Big ones are near a pound. I weighed a couple at 14.5 oz.